What I really meant was . . .

Recently a certain world political figure made headlines when he put his foot in his mouth, and promptly changed course by putting it up his derriere instead.

What a different world it would be if certain historical figures had said what they really meant to say, rather than what they did say.

For example: Marie Antoinette, the world's first diet queen, could have given rise to generations of physically fit Frenchmen and changed forever one of the world's most renown cuisines, if she had said what she really meant:

We will fight them on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds. Basically, anywhere that is needed, we will fight them. We can't decide where they will be, so we just have to take it as it comes.